Updates to our house

I decided to paint Lincolns wall in his room...it was driving me crazy! It just didn't match his decor so I decided to go all out and I painted it black and I am in LOVE!  This house slowly and surely is becoming us and I am loving it!

Our January

Our January has been full of remodeling our kitchen.  We ripped our kitchen completely out and got a brand new sink. However that means no sink, no oven, no dishwasher for 3 LONG weeks.  I will post pics once it's finished!

The BEST part of January???  Lincoln is FINALLY potty trained.  He took much longer than the girls.  But once I got him over his fear of the toilet seat he was good to go!  No more diapers is an amazing thing!  And yes, he got spoiled with candy and toys!

We also went to the pool one day with our cousins!

Love seeing them play together, they have so much fun!  We are going to save this picture of these cute princess' for when they get older!

Love our Evie girl...

And that's a wrap for January!

Christmas break!

After Christmas we headed up to the cabin with the Sanders family.  We are so lucky to be so close to our niece and her cute little family.  Our kids have such a fun time with one another!

We played games, watched movies, took naps and ate.

And of course there was plenty of snow to play in!

We also had an experience with the deer around our cabin that I will never forget.  In the Winter months the deer will walk right up to you and eat out of your hand.  I ran and grabbed my camera after we fed them for a bit.  My kids were beyond happy.  Lincoln giggled the whole time he fed the deer.   It is something I will always remember, such a magical time.

It really was the perfect way to spend the remaining of 2018.  We can't wait to see where and what we will do in 2019!

Merry Christmas!

The kids woke up around 7am ready to open presents!

Lincoln loved his whoopie cusion and his helicopter drone the most.

Addison loved her doll house and American Girl Doll!

And Cambree loved getting her very own hola hoop, Harry Potter books/dvd's and a ukulele.

Later that afternoon we headed to my parents house to celebrate Christmas with them!  

We had a wonderful day celebrating with family.  Hope you all had a great holiday as well!

Christmas Eve

This year we went to my sister in laws, Kattie's house for dinner.  It was so fun to get together with Papa David and Grandma Marie!  It's been a long time since we spent the holidays with them and we were all so glad to be together.  Also Benton's and Kattie's Aunt Kathy and Uncle Allen came and they brought a student who is studying at college nearby who is from Africa and came to America to study.  She was so nice and interesting to talk to!  We had the best night eating, laughing and watching the kids reenact Christ's birth.

Afterwards we hurried home so we could sleep before Santa came to bring us presents!

Mr. Grinch

Lincoln is OBSESSED with Mr. Grinch.  Watches it every night before bed.  He thinks he's hilarious, and when I saw these pj's I couldn't resist.  Also in this picture he's trying to make his face look like Mr. Grinch.

Mrs. Claus

Addison had a Kindergarten gingerbread performance at school where she was Mrs. Clause!  The program was for grandparents only, however since she's so shy she begged me to come.  So of course, I couldn't say no.  And since I was going, Batman had to come as well! She did wonderful and I'm glad she asked me to come!

Cabin life

The day after Thanksgiving we decided to stay the weekend up at our cabin.  It was nice getting out of a crazy disaster that our house was in.  Also the kids were so excited to play in snow since we hadn't gotten much at our house.

On our way up we grabbed Benton's dad atv to help with plowing all the snow.  Lincoln had fallen asleep so he had no idea we grabbed it on our way.  Once we got to the cabin and Benton drove it off the trailer- Lincoln's face was in pure shock/happiness...he said so softly "Oh my dosh."  It made me laugh out loud because his reaction was so cute.

We pretty much stayed inside the cabin and watched movies, ate and played games.  And the rest of the time was playing outside in the snow!

Also I don't know who loves the snow more, the kids or Scout?

Thanksgiving!

I was horrible at taking pictures in November apparently, whoops!

Originally I was suppose to host Thanksgiving.  However our house was in disarray.  We added wood floors to a section and had to remove our furniture.  So thankfully my cute sister in law volunteered to do it at her house.

Lincoln helped me cook some dishes in the morning before we went.  I mean, how cute is my sous chef?

Addie wore her thankful hat that she made at school.  She is thankful for lots, family, friends, love, her home, and toys. 

And off to the Carter's house for dinner.  Big family events are always my happy place.  I love being together with one another.  And I love how much love we all have for one another.  We are sure lucky to live so close to most of our family.

All in all it was the perfect Thanksgiving.  Hope yours was wonderful as well!